Word: honestly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...study. A large number are planning to enlist during the summer and think little about their college standing. Others who will return find the war an insuperable distraction. It is under such circumstances that men are called upon to keep on the job and complete their year with an honest effort. It will be difficult, but it is a duty which no one can neglect. Burn the midnight oil and fulfill all academic obligations should be the watchword of the coming two weeks...
...case great; in a country possessing no machinery for its accomplishment it is of tremendous difficulty. There have been many mistakes in the war's prosecution, and perhaps not a few of them have been due to partisan causes. But the bulk of the testimony points to an honest endeavor at a fair administration. Appointments of men of the opposite party may be a spectacular appeal to the electorate. Fairmindedness, however, demands recognition for a policy which lays partisanship aside and which substitutes a real consideration for the needs and obligations of the time. Let us hope that the appointment...
Truth-facing, like charity, begins at home. The man who is able to face the disagreeable truth about himself has learned to face the truth about the community he lives in and earned the right to speak of it. And a community honest enough, courageous enough, and intelligent enough to face the disagreeable truth about itself is a community hard to beat in war or in peace. --Boston Globe...
...Declaration of War a year ago, the United States has undergone the acid test. And how has she stood it? Truthfully, we may answer: well. Our youths have flocked from every state, willing, at least in spirit; our efforts to make up for years of unpreparedness have been honest, though sometimes ineffectual; and, taken all in all, our national spirit has been praiseworthy. It has shown vigor and earnestness but unhappily only too often a complete lack of sober thought...
...Where on earth do you think I am? To tell the honest truth, I'm not on earth at all. I am 5000 feet in the air! All alone! The engine is making such a noise that I can't hear myself think, but it is very smooth up here at 5000 feet, so I can run this 'bus with my left hand and write to you with my right! I am beginning to think that I am some aviator now, because I can go up and write letters...